(Clearwisdom.net) Since Sun Jibin, the new Director of the Police Department of Muleng City, Heilongjiang Province, came on board six months ago, over 30 Falun Dafa practitioners have been illegally arrested. As a result, this police department was recognized with the "Advanced Working Unit" award given by the national police system. In order to gain political prestige and amass capital, Sun Jibin started persecuting practitioners and extorting money from them without restraint in 2006.

Among the 30 practitioners were Dr. Qu, Dr. Zou, Ms. Zhang Yanfen, Ms. Gu Yan, Ms. Liu Di, Ms. Li Shuzhi, Mr. Lv Si and his wife, Mr. Qu Bo, Mr. Peng, Mr. Cheng Cheng, Xiao Zheng and his younger brother-in-law, Mrs. Zhao and her daughter from Muleng Town, Xiao Gao, Zhou Zhirong, the Zhang Youmei couple, and Sun Shiwei, a senior teacher from the school of advanced studies.

Li Shuzhi and Xiao Gao have been sent to Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labor Camp and Lao Peng to Mudanjiang City Forced Labor Camp. None of their families were notified at the time they were sent. All these practitioners who were "illegally arrested" were cruelly tortured while held in detention. For example, Sun Shiwei, who is over 50, lost two teeth when he was force-fed. The guards smashed his mouth and teeth in the process and blood flew all over his clothes and stained his bedding.

Since the beginning of the year the police have changed their tactics. The procedure before was: arrest, physical torture, forced labor camp, and prison. Now, after they make the arrest, they right away attempt to extort money from the practitioners' families. The lowest amount is 10,000 yuan. If they receive no money, the practitioner will be sent directly to the forced labor camp.

In the first half of January, Zhou Xinsheng with the National Security Team took police officers and secretly broke into the work unit of practitioner Mr. Cheng Cheng. They found a copy of "Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party" and took Mr. Cheng to the National Security Team. Zhou Xinsheng demanded that Mr. Cheng give him 20,000 yuan, saying that 10,000 yuan would cover the copy of the Nine Commentaries and 10,000 yuan was to enable him to attend a party. He also said it was the lowest offer he would make. When Mr. Cheng refused to cooperate, Zhou Xinsheng said he would send Mr. Cheng to a forced labor camp. He then demanded money from Mr. Cheng's family. His wife went to borrow money from every place she could thing of and barely collected 10,000 yuan.

One day in the first half of January, Zhou Xinsheng and other officers handcuffed Mr. Xiao Zhen, and took him to the National Security Team. Zhou also demanded 10,000 yuan from Mr. Xiao's wife, also a practitioner. It was more than they had, so, with great effort, Mr. Xiao's family borrowed 2,000 yuan. After three days, the police told Mr. Xiao to give them more money.

Zhou Xinsheng then took police to practitioner Ms. Gao Xuehui's family store and demanded money from her husband. Their only goal is to extort money from practitioners. At present, many practitioners are being chased by the police. They have had to abandon their homes. Several of them are over 70 years old.

Posting date: 2/7/2006
Original article date: 2/7/2006
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/1/19/118984.html

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